Re: Pedigree Analysis -- was Database for Tracking Irises

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From: <DWiris@aol.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, 31 July 2004 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: [iris] Pedigree Analysis -- was Database for Tracking Irises


> Hi Char,
>
> It may not be critical to track a pedigree more than five generations, but
I
> like to go back as far as possible to see where a certain trait
originated.  I
> haven't tried to do iris pedigrees on the computer, but have traced a
number
> of our introductions manually back to species.  I was looking particularly
for
> pink and plicata backgrounds.  In the cross of NACHOS X PILGRIMS' CHOICE
we
> obtained so many different colors including one plicata that I went back
as far
> as was possible and found not a single plicata.  I have been thinking that
I
> might try manually inputting iris data into my Family Tree program to
> facilitate making up charts.

I wondered if anybody had thought of entering iris pedigrees into a
genealogy program. When I got my second Abyssinian cat in 1990, her breeder
gave me a five-generation pedigree for each of her parents. Some of the
names looked familiar, so I began to wonder how this cat was related to my
first Aby, who was born in 1976. I didn't have an animal pedigree program at
the time- didn't even know such a thing existed- so I began entering cat
names into Family Tree Maker. It was version 1-something for DOS. My
computer was an 8088 with a 20 MEG, not GIG, hard drive and had a CGA
monitor!

Fourteen years and three computers later, I have a database of over 78,000
Abyssinian and Somali cats, stored in two places- a commercial pedigree
program and an Access db that I designed. I figured if I wanted to input
iris pedigree data and generate reports, modifying the Access db wouldn't be
too difficult. I could change field names, eliminate the ones I wouldn't
need, and delete the code I put in to prevent female sires and male dams, so
that the same iris could be the pod or pollen parent. :)

Cheryl Leigh

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